Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Author: Randolph Starn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 1994
Genre: Art
ISBN:

This beautiful series lavishly illustrates the world's major fresco cycles from the early fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Each book also contains a comprehensive text, a biography of the artist, a bibliography, and a glossary.

Philosophy and Public Administration

Philosophy and Public Administration
Author: Edoardo Ongaro
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2020-07-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1839100346

Philosophy and Public Administration provides a systematic and comprehensive introduction to the philosophical foundations of the study and practice of public administration. In this revised second edition, Edoardo Ongaro offers an accessible guide for improving public administration, exploring connections between basic ontological and epistemological stances and public governance, while offering insights for researching and teaching philosophy for public administration in university programmes.

Great Works

Great Works
Author: Tom Lubbock
Publisher:
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: Art criticism
ISBN: 9780711233904

The best of Tom Lubbock, one of Britain's most intelligent, outspoken and revelatory art critics, is collected here. Ranging with passionate perspicacity over 800 years of Western art, Tom Lubbock writes with immediacy and authority about the 50 works which most gripped his imagination.

The Art, Science, and Technology of Medieval Travel

The Art, Science, and Technology of Medieval Travel
Author: Robert Odell Bork
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780754663072

This sixth volume in the AVISTA series considers medieval travel from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, placing the physical practice of transportation in the larger context of medieval thought about the world and its meaning. The papers included cover vehicle design and logistical management, the practicalities of how travellers oriented themselves, and the symbolism of the landscapes and maps created in the Middle Ages.

Painting in Florence and Siena After the Black Death

Painting in Florence and Siena After the Black Death
Author: Millard Meiss
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1978
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780691003122

The first extended study of the painting of Florence and Siena in the later 14th century, this book presents a rich interweaving of considerations of connoisseurship, style, iconography, cultural and social background, and historical events.

Art as Politics in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena

Art as Politics in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena
Author: TimothyB. Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1351575597

In Art as Politics in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena, contributors explore the evolving relationship between image and politics in Siena from the time of the city-state's defeat of Florence at the Battle of Montaperti in 1260 to the end of the Sienese Republic in 1550. Engaging issues of the politicization of art in Sienese painting, sculpture, architecture, and urban design, the volume challenges the still-prevalent myth of Siena's cultural and artistic conservatism after the mid fourteenth century. Clearly establishing uniquely Sienese artistic agendas and vocabulary, these essays broaden our understanding of the intersection of art, politics, and religion in Siena by revisiting its medieval origins and exploring its continuing role in the Renaissance.